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Suffolk / Re: Does 'rove' only mean 'scab' in Suffolk?
« on: Monday 11 September 17 09:11 BST (UK)  »
To be a little more scientific about this, of the 6 of us who are holidaying together at the mo, the 3 who were brought up on rove were born around the late 1950s / early 1960s and our parents were respectively from Framlingham, Leiston and the Nacton/Gainsborough area of Ipswich.

The parents of the 3 who have never heard of it are from South Essex, Cornwall and Stoke.

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Suffolk / Re: Does 'rove' only mean 'scab' in Suffolk?
« on: Sunday 10 September 17 20:08 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Mike in Cumbria on Sunday 10 September 17 19:46 BST (UK)
The English Dialect Dictionary 1898, by Joseph Wright has it pegged as an East Anglian word, along with Rovy for scabby.

My wife's from Essex and has never heard it. Perhaps it's more Suffolk/Norfolk? Anyone from Essex heard it before?

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Suffolk / Does 'rove' only mean 'scab' in Suffolk?
« on: Sunday 10 September 17 19:04 BST (UK)  »
Only 3 of the 5 of us sitting here together know that a rove is another word for a scab (the crust that forms over a cut in your skin). And the 3 of us are all from Suffolk. Does rove mean scab anywhere else, or only in Suffolk? It took us ages before we found it anywhere on the Web, until we found it in this 1823 book of Suffolk words and phrases.

I pronounce it 'roove', but the other two pronounce it rove. That might be just the way my Mum used to say it, like a Suffolk person might pronounce 'rose' as 'roose'.

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Suffolk / Re: What is a "Carlick"?
« on: Tuesday 03 November 15 22:35 GMT (UK)  »
I farm land in Suffolk, and carlicks is the large wild mustard weed. I didn't realise it was called Charlock by everyone else until I just looked it up just now. We have had it particularly badly in the last few years contaminating the oil seed rape. You'll see it growing a foot or so higher than the rape, and it looks vaguely similar from a distance.

In my grandfather's day when there were many more folks working on the farm, they used to pull wild oats from the wheat crop by hand, so I'm sure it would have been common to pull carlicks too, because like wild oats they are taller, so they dominate the crop otherwise. When I was a kid (and this was only 1970s), truancy to earn cash for the family on farms was still fairly common, so I have no doubt kids were paid to hand weed.

I found carlicks as an alternative spelling of charlock here: http://www.finedictionary.com/charlock.html.

BTW, history buffs might also be interested the web pages I've created about Queen Mary's Lane that runs through our farm http://www.homefarmparham.co.uk/,

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